Team Bird Flu: Soccer in Cambodia

Most weekends, Team Bird Flu can be found competing in a friendship soccer match in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The team was originally established in 2007 as Team Lawyer 7, but became Team Bird Flu in May 2012 to promote awareness of Avian Influenza and prevention measures to the public. USAID, through the FHI 360 Cambodia Office, funded new team uniforms featuring the "Super Chicken" logo designed under USAID's AI-BCC, the predecessor to MID-BCC, and revived for MID-BCC's current work.

Team Bird Flu in their new uniforms

Chanthol Mak, the team captain wrote the following:

On behalf of Bird Flu football team, I world like to say thank you very much to USAID/FHI360 for sponsoring our team and I hope that USAID will continue to support our team activities in future.

Welcome everybody to become our teammates.

Team play every weekend on Saturday or Sunday.

With best regards
C. Mak
BFT representative
29 May 2012

Team Bird Flu in action in a friendship match against Team Fed Ex May 26, 2012 in Beng Keng Kang, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Team Bird Flu was defeated by Team Fed Ex by a score of 4-3.

USAID, through FHI 360, provided 287.50USD for the new team jerseys. The "Super Chicken" Logo on the front reads "Only you can stop Bird Flu"

For more details and updates, visit Team Bird Flu on Facebook.

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The Mekong Infectious Disease Behavior Change and Communication Project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Global Health under Client Associate Award Number GHN-A-00-09-00002-00 under Leader Award (C-Change) No. GPO-A -00-07-00004-00 and managed by FHI 360. The information provided on this site is the responsibility of FHI 360 and is not official information from the U.S. Government and does not represent the views or positions of USAID or the U.S. Government.